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UN Wastes Basic Right of Childhood in Yemen

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2019-11-24 13:31:07

Yemen

Translated Article written by Ibrahim Al-Wadei

Wasting the basic right of childhood, the United Nations chooses "playing outdoors" as the theme for World Children's Day. It is a new international fall in Yemen, follows the successive falls recorded by the United Nations system and the global values ​​system, which Saudi Arabia is again negotiating to be out the list of shame after re-inclusion under international pressure and its crimes in Yemen.

On World Children's Day, 20 November, the United Nations and its Fund for Children forgot the most tragic humanitarian tragedy in Yemen, which was supposed to be the focus of international attention. According to UN data and figures, thousands of Yemeni children have been killed by air strikes, thousands have been injured and disabled, millions have dropped out of education, millions more are falling below the poverty line, millions more are at risk of dying from epidemics and severe malnutrition. In addition, there are thousands of birth defects caused by the huge amount of bombs and missiles containing depleted uranium and phosphorus that have been thrown at Yemeni cities through more than 500,000 air strikes, and hundreds of thousands of ground and air bombardments carried out by the coalition of aggression over five years.

In the face of this international disregard for the blood of Yemeni children, in honor of the victims and the wounded children and in respect for the grievances and suffering of Yemenis who are suffering under siege and aggression, Sana'a, on the 30th anniversary of the signing of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child (November 20, 2019), took an independent slogan on the World Children's Day, “The silence of the world is a war crime,” reminding the world that its silence over five years has resulted in thousands of martyrs and wounded children. Others have lost their families, their homes, their schools and their future. It is a slogan in a new confrontation with false slogans launched by the United Nations "playing outdoors". UN and UNICEF officials know that a global tragedy continues to escalate in Yemen and that the Yemeni child, most affected after five years of war and after losing all basic rights, playing is his last concern.

Secretary-General of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood Akhlaq Al-Shami and members of the Supreme Political Council Ghalib al-Rahwi and Sultan Al-Samei directed sharp criticism to the United Nations and asked, on the World Children's Day, about the value of UN statements that the most terrible tragedy is occurring in Yemen, while the slogan of an international occasion of child turns to just "play"! “Are these UN statements merely figures for collecting funds from donors?” they wondered.

In a report released this week marking the 1,700 days since the war in Yemen, a civil society organization reports that 3,672 Yemeni children have been killed in five years of war and 3,856 children have been injured. The total civilian casualties during the 1,700 days of the war reached 42,135, including more than 5,000 women among the dead and wounded.

The organization notes that 684,451 civilian houses were destroyed by air strikes and shelling of the forces of aggression on Yemen, during the 1,700 days of the war. This huge number hides the tragedy of children displaced by the war after they lost their homes. According to the statistics, 1052 schools, 383 hospitals and health facilities, and 1856 reservoirs and water systems were destroyed. These figures hide the tragedy of millions of children who have lost shelter, education, health and clean water.

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